This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Techniques > Literary Techniques – Quiz 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Techniques Quiz 4 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. An implied comparison of two unlike objects:states that something is or was something else A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Pun. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 2. Which technique is being used here:Just as I swung around, I came face-to-face with the class prefect, Amelia. A) Show not tell. B) Introductory phrase. C) Dialogue. D) 5 senses. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Introductory phrase. 3. Litotes is..... A) A deliberate comparison. B) A deliberate addition. C) A deliberate understatement. D) A deliberate exaggeration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A deliberate understatement. 4. What literary technique is being used in the dialogue from TEWWG below? "Dat 'oman ain't so awfully pretty no how when you take the second look at her." A) Sarcasm. B) Dramatic irony. C) Point of view. D) Situational irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Situational irony. 5. What are literary techniques? A) Non-universal features of literature that deal with individual words and sentences. B) Typical structures used by writers in their works to convey a message(s) to the reader in a simple manner. C) Are used to develop the literary piece and are extensively employed by writers. D) An essential characteristic of all works of written and spoken narrative fiction . Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Non-universal features of literature that deal with individual words and sentences. 6. What should the first and last sentence be? A) Same meaning, different words. B) Oposite meaning. C) Exactly the same. D) Evidence from the text. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Same meaning, different words. 7. Which literary technique gives human characteristics to non-human things? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Zoomorphism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 8. All knowing as in its narration, the narrator knows everything about all characters A) First person. B) Omniscient. C) Second person. D) Dynamic character. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Omniscient. 9. Who was Maya Angelou? A) A Famous Poet. B) A Dancer. C) A Civil Rights Activist. D) All of the Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the Above. 10. Writers use sensory details to help readers IMAGINE how things LOOK, FEEL, SMELL, SOUND, and TASTE. A) Symbolism. B) Personification. C) Hyperbole. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. 11. How would allusion be defined? A) A reference to a famous person, place, or event. B) Words that involve one of the five senses. C) Two lines working as a unit. D) A form or wordplay with similar sounding sounds. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A reference to a famous person, place, or event. 12. What is the name of your main English teacher? A) Lorine Okafor. B) Eniola Kwelum. C) Damilola Oke. D) Emmanuel Adekoya. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lorine Okafor. 13. Giving something that isn't alive human characteristics A) Fake. B) Humancation. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 14. "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen." A) Characterization. B) Repetition. C) Simile. D) Setting. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Setting. 15. Choose the correct onomatopoeia for a bird. A) Bark. B) Oink. C) Moo. D) Tweet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tweet. 16. "And for me-I love it! I mean, I love to go to the grocery store 'cause I get to visit with four or five or six people every time I go" (Kaufman, 23). A) Imagery. B) Repetition. C) Diction. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repetition. 17. Good authors do research when writing their novels. Which is NOT something the author probably researched for The Compound? A) Nuclear attacks. B) Hydroponics. C) Cloning. D) How to paint a bedroom yellow. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) How to paint a bedroom yellow. 18. The author references his/her personal experiences in the text A) Personal story. B) Analogy. C) Imagery. D) Facts and statistics. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personal story. 19. Which of the following is a type of figurative language that compares two things? A) Alliteration. B) Simile. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 20. Reading a poem in such a way to determine its meter (stresses and unstresses) in a line A) Scansion. B) Meter. C) Iambic pentameter. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Scansion. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesIntroductions QuizzesLiterary Techniques Quiz 1Literary Techniques Quiz 2Literary Techniques Quiz 3Literary Techniques Quiz 5Literary Techniques Quiz 6Literary Techniques Quiz 7Literary Techniques Quiz 8Literary Techniques Quiz 9Literary Techniques Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books